Friday, July 20, 2012

I've been doing some development work with Amazon's DynamoDB recently. Here's info on two github repositories that enable you to get started with DynamoDB and that show, at least at some level, the kinds of apps that DynamoDB can be used for.

CloudSpokes Kiva Loan application [Java]: Data are loaded from a JSON feed into DynamoDB. The application supports item loading, and the display and filtering (by country name) of DynamoDB data.

Sample bulletin board application [PHP]: A discussion board application that supports DynamoDB data creation and review using web forms. The Readme file includes instructions that are sufficient for getting the application online, though Apache configuration knowledge is useful. Note that if you want to use the AWS Console to review table data, you'll need to set the appropriate DynamoDB endpoint in file SimpleAmazonDynamoDB.php. (See this page for a listing of DynamoDB endpoints.)

The source code for this project is available on github; I've created a fork with some customizations on github.